Cardinal del Monte’s patronage in mid-1590s Rome is a completed household-and-market heading that made early pictures public
1592–95), with early genre and still-life pictures entering elite rooms. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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1592–95), with early genre and still-life pictures entering elite rooms. Shared work with Minniti as companion-model remains named. Later museum doors are not 1595.
Context
This is knowledge-and-market access, not a parish. Arrival year is handbook, not a recovered inn register.
Caravaggio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Lived 1571–1610. Legal incidents are stored as documented process, not as later legend. Ranuccio Tomassoni is not affiliated_with. Complex contribution is required except where the killing is direct.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Caravaggio
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactCardinal del Monte’s patronage in mid-1590s Rome is a completed household-and-market heading that made early pictures public
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1595 · verified
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — CaravaggioEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Met Heilbrunn — Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) and His FollowersMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Britannica and Met Heilbrunn print Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte as the documented protector after Caravaggio’s Roman arrival (c.
Met Heilbrunn and Britannica independently describe del Monte patronage.
Established: del Monte as named mid-1590s patron in standard lives. Not established: exact ISO arrival day.
Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorCaravaggio
- contributed toFactCardinal del Monte’s patronage in mid-1590s Rome is a completed household-and-market heading that made early pictures public
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Cardinal del Monte’s patronage in mid-1590s Rome is a completed household-and-market heading that made early pictures public. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-rome-del-monte-1595
https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-rome-del-monte-1595
Accessed 16 October 2026.
By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed
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